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The Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, Florida is now over and we now have the list of the changes that we may see in Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal”, which is expected in April 2011. Here is a brief description of the main decisions taken for Ubuntu 11.04:

Last month an ugly looking wallpaper was found, words got around that it was the default wallpaper, everybody cried out its ugliness – there was even a bug report – even though Canonical Design said that that was not the default wallpaper. Today,we have another wallpaper. It looks far better than the previous “default” wallpaper….

Unlike the default wallpaper in Ubuntu, for Xubuntu 10.10 the default wallpaper is chosen from users’ submissions. The Xubuntu developers have asked for user submissions and today, they have announced the winning artwork:

There already has been words about Empathy replacing Pidgin as the default IM client in both Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 12. We are not sure whether Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic will have it or not but Fedora 12 is going to have Empathy as it’s default IM client for sure.

Google Chrome lets you search for things on the web right from the address bar. Although Chrome has four search engines to choose from, you may like to add more search engines or even remove some. In this article we will tell you how to do so.

Squid is one of the best caching web proxy servers out there. Although it provides a number of amazing features but the default error page which is served by Squid is very basic and does not look good. So if you are a system administrator you may like to customize or change the default error…